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The  Zero  Hour 


Bulletin  of  Hamline  University 

April,  nineteen  tW';nty-one 


The  Zero  Hour 


The  present  freshman  class  will  graduate  just 
seventy  years  after  the  Territorial  Legislature  of 
Minnesota  granted  a  charter  to  the  Hamline  Uni- 
versity, "to  be  situate  on  the  Mississippi  River,  at 
some  point  between  St.  Paul  and  Lake  Pepin."  1921 
finds  the  Twentieth  Century  coming  of  age,  and 
Hamline  University  taking  a  fresh  start  on  another 
life  cycle.  It  is  the  Zero  Hour — the  third  in 
Hamline  history.  When  the  trustees  decided  that 
Hamline  is  to  send  down  new  roots  right  where  we 
are,  in  close  contact  with  the  needs  and  opportun- 
ities of  modern  urban  life,  encompassed  by,  but  not 
altogether  of,  that  life, — the  third  Zero  Hour 
arrived.  Another  era  was  born.  The  Women's 
Dormitory  and  the  Athletic  Field  mark  the  begin- 
ning of  an  expansion  which  is  planned  for  the  next 
decade  to  enlist  the  sympathy  and  energies  of  the 
AU-Hamline  team:  trustees,  faculty,  alumni  and 
students;  and  also  to  requisition  help  from  the  civic 
pride  of  St.  Paul,  the  educational  interest  of  Minne- 
sota Methodism,  and  the  passionate  loyalty  of  lovers 
of  the  freedom  of  the  spirit  everywhere. 

The  plan  of  building  will  not  be  for  breadth 
alone,  or  breadth  largely;  but  for  depth  and  height. 
Hamline  must  serve  the  deepest  purposes  of  demo- 
cratic, God-conscious  education,  and  must  build  on 
this  foundation  a  tower  of  vision  that  will  look  out 
upon  all  the  problems  of  modern  life  and  overlook 
none  of  them.  Such  an  edifice  is  the  purposeful 
ambition  of  Hamline  at  this,  the  third  Zero  Hour. 


Hamline  Scholarships 


Attention  is  called  to  the  following  prizes  and  scholar- 
ships available  at  Hamline  University  this  year. 

FOR  FRESHMEN: 

I.  Competitive  Scholarship  Prizes.  Three  prizes  worth 
two  hundred  dollars  each  will  be  offered  to  three  high  school 
seniors  in  the  state.  Ten  other  prizes  worth  one  hundred 
dollars  each  will  be  awarded,  one  in  each  of  the  ten  Con- 
gressional districts  of  Minnesota.  Winners  of  the  three  state 
prizes  will  not  be  considered  in  awarding  the  ten  district 
prizes.  Any  high  school  senior  residing  in  Minnesota  may 
enter  the  competition  by  submitting  the  following  data: 

1.  A  transcript  of  his  high  school  record,  including  a 
statement  from  his  superintendent  that  he  is  a  graduate  or 
in  line  for  graduation  this  year. 

2.  A  letter  in  his  own  handwriting,  and  of  original  com- 
position, in  which  he  states  the  reasons  why  he  desires  the 
consideration  of  the  contest  committee.  This  letter  will  be 
an  important  consideration  in  the  committee's  selection. 

3.  Not  less  than  three  letters  of  recommendation  from 
prominent  citizens  of  the  community  in  which  the  applicant 
lives.  If  Hamline  Alumni  are  available  their  recommendation 
should  be  sought. 

All  communications  relative  to  these  prizes  should  be 
sent  to  Dr.  .J.  D.  Hicks,  Chairman  Freshman  Scholarship  Com- 
mittee, Hamline  University,  St.  Paul,  Minn.  Papers  must  be 
sent  in  before  June  1  in  order  to  be  considered. 

II.  Additional  High  School  Scholarships.  Honorary  Schol- 
arships of  from  fifty  to  one  hundred  dollars  each  are  offered 
to  the  first  ranking  student  among  the  young  men  and  also 
among  the  young  women  in  each  graduating  class  of  an  ac- 
credited four-year  high  school,  subject  to  the  following  con- 
ditions: 


1.  The  award  will  not  be  made  until  the  end  of  the 
first  semester. 

2.  In  case  the  work  of  a  student  holding  one  of  these 
scholarships  shall  average  "A"  the  award  will  be  $100;  in 
case  the  average  is  "B"  the  award  will  be  $75;  in  case  the 
average  is  "C"  the  award  will  be  $50.  If  the  average  is  below 
"C"  no  award  will  be  made. 

3.  These  scholarships  will  not  be  awarded  to  winners 
of  the  competitive  scholarship  prizes. 

III.  Alumni  Scholarships.  Five  scholarshii)S  worth  $100 
each  are  made  available  by  the  alumni  of  Hamline  University 
to  promising  graduates  of  the  high  schools  of  Minnesota  or 
near-by  states.  For  further  information  about  these  scholar- 
ships, and  about  the  many  other  funds  available  for  the 
assistance  of  worthy  students,  write  to  President  S.  F.  Ker- 
foot,  Hamline  University,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

SCHOLARSHIPS  FOR  STUDENTS  OTHER  THAN  FRESH- 
MEN: 

I.  Sophomore  Scholarships.  Four  scholarships  worth 
one  hundred  dollars  each  will  be  awarded  at  the  end  of  the 
freshman  year,  two  to  the  highest  ranking  men,  and  two  to 
the  highest  ranking  women,  in  the  class. 

II.  Junior  Scholarships.  Four  one  hundred  dollar  schol- 
arships will  also  be  awarded  to  students  who  have  completed 
the  work  of  the  sophomore  year  with  especial  distinction. 
Two  of  these  scholarships  will  be  awarded  to  men,  and  two 
to  women.  The  basis  of  selection  will  be  (1)  scholarship, 
and  (2)  value  to  the  college  community.  In  making  these 
awards  the  work  of  the  freshman  year  will  not  be  considered. 

III.  Senior  Scholarship.  A  prize  of  $150  is  offered  to 
that  member  of  the  junior  class  whose  grand  average  in 
grades  for  the  three  years  of  college  work  is  highest. 

Note:  All  scholarships  will  be  paid  in  so  far  as  possible 
by  credit  on  tuition.  When  a  scholarship  exceeds  the  total 
tuition  charges  for  a  year  the  excess  will  be  paid  in  cash, 
one-half  at  the  beginning  of  each  semester. 


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Three  Open  Letters 


Dear  Mr.  and  Miss.  H.  S.  Senior: 

The  next  four  years  will  be  golden  ones  for  you.  What 
are  you  going  to  do  with  them — start  gathering  moss  and 
become  petrified  in  the  process,  or  begin  rolling  stones  to- 
gether to  make  a  good  wide  foundation  for  your  middle  years 
to  build  upon? 

Some  of  you,  I  suspect,  are  very  frivolous  and  some  are 
very  serious.  Young  people  are  likely  to  be  very  much  one 
thing  or  the  other.  Now  college  has  a  queer  kind  of  chemical 
reaction  on  extremes.  It  injects  a  bit  of  iron  into  the  light- 
minded  and  hot-blooded;  and  just  as  often  puts  a  little  jazz 
into  the  young  prophets  and  seers  who  feel  heavily  the  bur- 
den and  mystery  of  the  world  on  their  shoulders.  Both  of 
these  reactions  are  good.  The  first  is  obviously  so;  a  serious 
purpose  and  a  sharpened  tool  are  needed  to  open  the  oyster 
of  the  universe.  The  second  is  just  as  good.  Society  has 
waited  a  long  time  for  you  and  can  afford  to  worry  along  four 
years  longer  until  you  have  a  better  developed  humor. 

Meanwhile  don't  imagine  you  will  just  be  preparing  to 
live;  you  will  be  living  and  contributing  to  the  full-rounded 
life  of  a  lot  of  other  immensely  interesting  young  personali- 
ties who  are  later  going  to  cut  considerable  ice.  If  you  have 
force,  college  will  give  you  an  ideal  working  field.  And  the 
life  is  not  thin  or  meagre;  on  the  contrary,  it  proves  over- 
abundant unless  you  restrict  your  diet. 

William  James,  one  of  America's  wisest  men,  said  that 
the  value  of  a  college  education  lay  in  its  teaching  you  "how 
to  know  a  good  man  when  you  see  him.  This  ability  is  use- 
ful not  to  the  girls  alone;  it  is  the  very  epitome  of  a  sound 
equipmxent  for  success.  If  your  mind  is  so  shaped  and  tem- 
pered that  you  can  distinguish  the  charlatan  from  the  seer, 
literature  from  il-literature,  the  sound  policy  from  the  mere- 
tricious one,  everywhere  the  fundamental  from  the  superficial, 


— you  will  be  educated;  you  will  be  fit.  If  you  cannot  do  this, 
you  may  fit  into  a  certain  groove,  and  gather  some  moss;  but 
the  age  of  thirty-five  will  find  you  petrified  in  the  present, 
unable  to  sense  the  new  life  of  that  new  day. 

Now,  of  course,  dear  Mr.  and  Miss  H.  S.  Senior,  you  may 
become  educated  without  the  aid  of  college.  Abraham  Lincoln 
did.  If  you  have  his  stuff  in  you  it  will  make  little  difference 
whether  you  go  to  college  or  not.  But  even  Lincoln  felt 
handicapped  at  times  by  the  gaps  in  his  reading.  College 
never  hurt  an  incipient  Lincoln,  while  it  has  helped  many  a 
less  robust  soul  to  conquer  an  unfriendly  world.  Really  you 
will  learn  some  day — may  it  be  in  time — that  a  drab  sheepskin 
has  a  good  deal  of  bearing  on  the  search  for  the  Golden 
Fleece.     Yes,  and  the  Holy  Grail! 


A.  Sophomore  No  doubt,  letters  and  other  messages  are  dropping  down 

St)eaks  ^l^on  you,  who  are  about  to  enter  upon  life's  open  road,  to 
attend  this  or  that  college  or  to  enter  upon  some  particular 
enterprise. 

To  begin  with  I  want  to  tell  you  that  I  am  glad  that  I 
am  at  college  and  I  am  here  to  say  that  I  am  proud  of  it 
too;  more  proud  than  of  anything  that  I  have  ever  done 
before.  There  is  a  pride  that  one  has  in  himself  over  the 
fact  that  he  is  getting  through  college  on  his  own  efforts 
and  initiative  that  far  exceeds  the  effort  and  sacrifice  neces- 
sary to  accomplish  the  fact. 

It  is  easier  to  work  and  go  to  college  at  the  same  time 
than  to  work  and  do  nothing  more.  This  probably  seems 
contrary  to  all  economic  laws,  to  you,  but  I  know  that  it  is 
true  because  I  have  tried  both.  At  the  end  of  my  first  col- 
lege year  the  war  was  in  full  swing  and  with  the  war  came 
the  restless  period  for  the  chap  who  was  just  under  the  age. 
I  was  with  the  rest  of  them.  I  wanted  to  get  across  and 
become  a  lieutenant  or  something.  When  I  received  my  dis- 
charge after  three  months  of  doing  nothing  of  importance 
except  letting  my  officers  bluff  me,  I  felt  that  I  never  would 
go  to  college. 


For  a  while  I  tried  the  other  game  out  in  the  world  and 
I  saw  what  respect  men  had  for  me  because  I  had  the  stamp 
of  having  gone  to  college.  People  expected  big  results  of  me 
for  the  reason  that  I  had  had  one  year  of  college  work.  Now 
I  am  back  in  college  and  going  all  right.  I  started  in  last 
fall  on  $200  and  I  am  still  here. 

There  is  a  crying  need  today  for  men  who  can  work  with 
their  heads  and  at  the  same  time  keep  their  heads.  College 
does  that  for  you.  Every  time  a  chap  hits  you,  out  on  the  foot- 
ball field,  you  know  that  it  is  up  to  you  to  come  back  a  little 
harder.  Every  time  you  are  knocked  down  it  is  up  to  you  to 
bounce  so  high  that  the  knock  will  serve  as  a  boost. 

Whatever  you  do,  don't  let  the  game  bluff  you  just  be- 
cause someone  isn't  paying  your  way.  Always  remember  that 
the  thing  that  comes  the  hardest   stays  the  best. 


jind  Last,  High  School  Seniors,  what  do  you  think  of  a  unanimous 

a  Junior  election?  College  is  endorsed  by  everyone  who  has  passed 
through  its  four-year  course  as  the  training  for  average 
young  men  or  women. 

If  you  wished  to  know  about  banking  you  would  ask 
a  banker;  information  about  railroad  v/ork  you  would  get 
from  a  railroad  man,  and  so,  to  find  out  whether  or  not 
college  is  worth  while,  you  may  safely  take  the  opinion  of 
college   people. 

Perhaps  you  say,  "Well,  college  may  be  all  right  for  some, 
but  why  should  I  go?"  College  will  help  you  in  the  most  im- 
portant decision  you  can  make — the  choice  of  a  life  work. 
If  you  have  already  chosen,  it  will  aid  you  in  preparing. 

One  great  tragedy  in  American  life  is  that  the  average 
person  does  not  choose  a  life  work,  but  just  drifts  into  it, 
taking  the  first  thing  that  looks  attractive.  Most  people 
drift  into  their  life's  vocation  before  sixteen  years  of  age, 
without  preparation  and  without  an  analysis  of  themselves  or 
their  jobs. 

It  is  said  that  the  Ideal  age  for  choosing  a  life  work  is 
22.     Until  this  time  one's  preparation  should  be  general,  so 


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that  one  can  specialize  later  without  waste  of  time.  At  the 
age  of  16  we  reach  our  greatest  adaptibility,  at  25  our  great- 
est accuracy,  and  at  40  our  greatest  mental  power.  Do  not 
worry  if  you  have  not  as  yet  decided  what  you  wish  to  do  in 
life.  College  work  will  enable  you  to  take  up  any  definite  line 
with  greater  understanding  than  you  would  otherwise   have. 

An  old  farmer  steadily  refused  to  give  his  boy  more 
education.  One  day  a  passing  neighbor  saw  the  old  man 
sharpening  a  scythe  preparatory  to  cutting  the  grass  on  the 
front  lawn.  "See  here,  Henry,"  he  said,  "hadn't  you  better 
cut  that  grass  right  away?  Isn't  it  a  waste  of  time  to  sharpen 
the  scythe?"  The  keen  old  man  saw  the  point  and  the  next 
term  his  boy  went  to  college. 

Are 'you  so  anxious  to  get  into  life  that  you  would  rush 
in  without  sharpening  your  tools — your  mental  power,  thought, 
ideas,  personality.  Remember,  he  cuts  the  most  trees  who  has 
the  sharpest  axe. 

We  each  owe  a  duty  to  the  world  that  has  cared  for  us, 
watched  over  us,  and  brought  us  thus  far  along  the  highway 
of  life.  That  duty  is  to  prepare  for  the  largest  possible  serv- 
ice to  humanity;  whether  that  service  is  to  be  rendered 
through  business,  agricultural  or  professional  life  is  a  matter 
of  personal  choice.  We  owe  it  to  ourselves  and  to  others 
to  develop  every  latent  power  within  us.  You  will  be  richer  in 
mind  and  spirit  all  the  rest  of  your  life.  You  will  put  some- 
thing into  the  bank  of  your  personality  that  will  draw  per- 
petual interest. 


VOL.  XI  No.  2 


The  Bulletin  of  Hamline  University  is  published  by  the  University  and 
issued    four   times   a    year,    in    January,    March,    May   and    November,    with 
occasional  supplements. 
Editor— Thomas   P.   Beyer 
Assistant  Editors— A.  T.  Adams  and  K.  A.  Johnsoi 

Entered  as  second  class  mail  matter  in  the  Postofifice  at  St.   Paul.   Min- 
nesota, under  the  Act  of  August  24,  1912. 

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